Ume Sami language
E376427
Ume Sami language is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people along the Ume River in northern Sweden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ume Sami language canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3648555 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ume Sami language Context triple: [Finno-Ugric languages, hasMember, Ume Sami language]
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A.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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B.
Lule Sami language
Lule Sami language is a Uralic, Sami language spoken primarily in parts of northern Norway and Sweden by the Lule Sámi people.
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C.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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E.
Amami language
The Amami language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan’s Amami Islands, known for its endangered status and distinct phonology and grammar within the Japonic language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ume Sami language Target entity description: Ume Sami language is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people along the Ume River in northern Sweden.
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A.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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B.
Lule Sami language
Lule Sami language is a Uralic, Sami language spoken primarily in parts of northern Norway and Sweden by the Lule Sámi people.
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C.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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E.
Amami language
The Amami language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan’s Amami Islands, known for its endangered status and distinct phonology and grammar within the Japonic language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sami language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Northwest Uralic languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lule Sami language
ⓘ
Pite Sami language ⓘ South Sami language ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Sami language
|
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented compared to some other Sami languages ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
assimilation policies
ⓘ
language shift to Swedish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Sámi people
ⓘ
linked to:
Sámi
|
| family |
Uralic language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uralic languages
|
| hasCaseSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasStandardOrthography | limited or developing ⓘ |
| historicalUse | traditional language of Sámi communities along the Ume River ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | ume ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Western Sami
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Sami languages
|
| languagePolicyContext | minority language in Sweden ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| partOf | Sápmi linguistic area ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature | consonant gradation ⓘ |
| region | northern Sweden ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts | subject of documentation and revitalization projects ⓘ |
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Sami branch ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | Ume River valley ⓘ |
| usedByMinority | yes ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ume Sami language Description of subject: Ume Sami language is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people along the Ume River in northern Sweden.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.